[PATCH] Add support for the IBM POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.

[Carl E. L. <ce...@us...>]

Add support for the IBM POWER 8 NV and NVL variants.

The processor performance counter unit is identical for the various
variants of the POWER 8 processor.  The variants vary some for the
non-cpu events.

Signed-off-by: Carl Love <ce...@us...>
---
 libop/op_cpu_type.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/libop/op_cpu_type.c b/libop/op_cpu_type.c
index d03f9d6..0e1f6e4 100644
--- a/libop/op_cpu_type.c
+++ b/libop/op_cpu_type.c
@@ -330,6 +330,11 @@ static op_cpu _get_ppc64_cpu_type(void)
 	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8e", 7) == 0)
 		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';
 
+	/* The POWER8NV and POWER8NVL variants have the same core PMU events as
+	 * POWER8. */
+	if (strncmp(cpu_name_lowercase, "power8nv", 8) == 0)
+		cpu_name_lowercase[6] = '\0';
+
 	cpu_type_str[0] = '\0';
 	strcat(cpu_type_str, "ppc64/");
 	strncat(cpu_type_str, cpu_name_lowercase, len);
-- 
1.8.3.1